When you have a dream and you start working toward it
and you share that dream that you have with other people
they're not going to see it like you do.
They'll laugh at you.
They'll think you're crazy.
And sometimes you're going to think you're crazy, too.
You're going to question yourself.
It's hard.
It's hard when everyone around you is doubting you
and making fun of you and telling you to give it up
that you're wasting your time.
It's very hard.
But you know what?
Every great, successful person was ridiculed before they were revered.
Life is not easy it is not.
Don't try to make it that way.
Life's not fair.
It never was it isn't now, and it won't ever be.
Do not fall into the trap the entitlement trap
of feeling like you're a victim.
You are not.
Get over it and get on with it.
Stop telling your visions to other people
because they're not going to see it.
Why you think you keep imagining opening a business?
Why you keep imagining graduating?
Getting a better job?
Why do you keep imagining buying a house?
Why do you keep imagining driving a really nice car?
Why do you keep imagining getting rich one day?
Why do you keep imagining that?
Because the universe is talking to you.
It's showing you something that it has for you.
Your perception has everything to do
with how this year is going to work.
It is not what you perceive about me.
It's what I perceive about me.
Have opinions and feelings about yourself independent of the feedback.
The day that you allow the opinions of the outside world
to dictate the way you feel about yourself it is the beginning of the end
of you living a blessed and self-loving, secure
life.
It is not the car that I drive or any of the jewelry that I own
or the size of my house that defines my self-worth.
I'm hot.
I'm hot when you don't think I'm hot.
I'm amazing when you don't think I'm amazing.
I love me even if you stop loving me.
You can say the nastiest meanest, evilest sh*t
that you could ever conjure up it will never change the way I feel about
myself.
It's not what they say about you that matters.
It is what you say about you
that threatens your destiny.
You will never be defeated by what they say about you.
You will be defeated by what you
say about
you.
I am great and I don't owe anybody an apology.
I am phenomenal and I don't owe anybody an apology.
I am going to do great things and I don't owe anybody
an apology.
Stand up for your dream.
Stand up for what you want in your life.
You've got to talk to yourself day in and day out.
You've got to say yes.
I can make it.
The last chapter to my life has not been written yet.
If you judge me now you'll judge me prematurely.
I'm still in the process of transforming my life.
I'm still in the process of becoming.
Yes.
It's your dream nobody's going to see it like you do.
It's your dream nobody's going to feel like you feel it.
It's your dream nobody's going to be as dedicated to it as
you are.
It's your dream and they don't have to understand
and they don't have to like it and they don't have to do it.
It doesn't make a difference it's your dream
and you, my friend have been given the task
to make it happen and you can't let anything stop you
from doing what you were called to do.
I was created to do great things and I will no longer ask others for their
permission.
I don't expect you to believe in my dream
like I believe in my dream.
And the problem with some of y'all is you want somebody else to support your
dream.
It's yours.
I don't owe you a dime.
It's your dream.
If you want it to happen get your butt up and make it happen.
If you want it to happen rise and grind.
Because this my time.
This my moment.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow ain't no such thing as tomorrow
we only got today.
I need specifics.
What are you doing on Monday?
What are you doing on Tuesday?
What are you doing on Wednesday?
You need to be very specific.
It's time to put your pieces together
of your puzzle.
I've put mine together.
I put this life together.
I made this happen.
Nobody helped me to get here.
I had to get up.
I had to go to class.
I had to read.
I had to study.
I had to write.
I understood that the dream is real
but the lifestyle is realer.
You got to earn this.
Let the dream strip you.
Let it remake and mold you.
Life's gonna whip your butt.
Life is gonna bully you.
Stop crying be demanding.
Let it hit you but don't let it punk you.
We all go through it.
Some of you though you let your pain punk you.
You let your pain make you quit.
You have come too far to quit now.
You have invested too much to quit now.
You have lost too much to quit now.
Get a reward for your pain.
Don't cry about it.
Don't whine about it.
Get a reward for it.
And for some of you you stop dreaming.
You dream for a week and you stop because things around you don't look good.
You dream for a month and when you get hit in the mouth
you quit and you give up.
You dream for a while and when people tell you you're crazy
when people tell you you're stupid and when people tell you it could never get
done you stop dreaming
and you go back to knowledge.
And I dare you to use your imagination.
I dare you when you're broke to use your imagination.
I dare you when you're rich to use your imagination.
I dare you under every single circumstance
keep dreaming.
Keep focusing on your dream.
Keep going after the dream because that's where true success is.